This One Got Below The Radar!

Saudi Men Who Rode School Bus Arrested

By KEITH MORELLI kmorelli@tampatrib.com


TAMPA - Two Saudi men were arrested Friday after they boarded a school bus and rode to Wharton High School in New Tampa.

Students on the bus became alarmed, as did the bus driver, who called ahead. Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies met the bus at the school and detained the men. No one was injured and nothing out of line occurred on the bus, deputies said.

Mana Saleh Almanajam, 23, who lives in Apt. 302 in The Point apartments, and Shaker Mohsen Alsidran, 20 Monticello Gardens, Apt. 304-A, each were charged with trespassing on school property. Both remained in Orient Road Jail on Friday evening. Bail for each was set at $250.

"Both defendants gave several versions of the reason they took a school bus to a high school," said Hillsborough County sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway.

"They said they wanted to go to Wharton to look around, and then they said they wanted to go there to have some fun, and then they said they wanted to enroll in the English classes there," Callaway said.

"We're not sure if this was a situation of them just being new to this country, or if they were confused or what it was," Callaway said. "We were unsure as to exactly what the final reason was, but it did cause great concern for the students on the bus and for us. One of the guys was wearing shorts with a black trench coat."

While on the bus, the men laughed and spoke in Arabic, Callaway said.

Ahmed Bedier, Tampa director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said the men likely meant no harm and that because "they were from Saudi Arabia, that escalated the situation."

He blamed the incident on cultural differences.

"They didn't differentiate between a school bus and public transportation," he said.

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I pride myself on not missing much, however I missed this one yesterday! Hat tip to http://tinyurl.com/nmsxh nicedoggie for this find and go here Beslan-in-America™ dry run for their take on this. And here is a link about bail being revoked for this pair of front-men http://tinyurl.com/zpzpg tbo.com.

What I'd like to know is why in the hell did the school bus driver let these rags on the bus in the first place?

This could be nothing more than a mix-up with nitwits who don't know any better, but I smell a rat here. This could have been a dry run/sit-rep run for a Beslan type terrorist act.

And finally here again we have our nations security open to question, yet again. It's bad enough that the Mex border is a sieve, but given the events of 09/11/01 why are we still allowing any of these Mid-East Moon-Bats into this country? Oh I forgot 'Mr. In Charge' tried to sell American port security to Mid-East Moon-Bats.

Are we ever going to get serious about closing the borders of this nation? No I don't think we are as long as we bow down before the all mighty dollar and profit comes before all.

I must say that I agree with nicedoggie on this